http://www.gotpoetry.com/ News for Poets. Place to write. en-us Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:53 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly GotPoetry.com News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.gotpoetry.com/images/autoheader/logo-slogan.gif http://www.gotpoetry.com/ http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12060.html Please see Michelle Schaefer's poem Street Performers on page 46 - Seattle Woman Magazine, July 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:53 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12042.html The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation announced it will publish the world's first comprehensive 'Arabic Narrative Encyclopaedia', exploring, analyzing and documenting this unique Arabic literary genre. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:12:04 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12043.html CARDIFF poet Dannie Abse won a top book award for his diary about life after the death of his wife in a car crash, but admitted: “I wish I had never had to write it.” Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:14:38 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12044.html Poetry News: Join poet April Dawn Gosling for a night of wine, cheese and poetry at Schuler Books & Music in Okemos.Link! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:16:09 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12045.html ...Link! Eileen was a devoted reader whose tastes tended to the classics and poetry. The children had to memorize poetry, and the aforementioned family dog was named after Emily Dickinson. That was an embarrassment to son Timothy. "How could he tell his friends the dog was named after a poet?" Kennedy said. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:21:06 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12046.html GIVE them a word, any word, and members of the Proletariat Poetry Factory will spin a poem out of it - on the spot. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:28:07 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12047.html Reading by Valentine Pierce/Open Mic. 7-9 p.m. July 3. Reading by New Orleans performance poet Valentine Pierce will be followed by an open mic for poetry and music. Free. Casa Azul. 232 Martin Luther King Drive, Grand Coteau. 662-1032. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:32:00 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12048.html We have two "Catch the Writing Bug" Workshops for children coming up at the Sister Bay Liberty Grove Library. The first is a poetry workshop. We are very happy and honored to have Sharon Auberle, a published poet well-known in Door County and beyond, to direct the workshop. The title of the workshop is "The Poem Tree," which will be presented in three sessions, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 14, 16 and 18. Children in grades three to six may sign up at the library....Link! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:36:05 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12049.html Writing Wrongs 1st Show 2NITE!!! You've been hearing about it for weeks, so just the facts- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:15:15 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12050.html Welsh poetry, much of it written in the ancient strict-metre form of alliterative verse called cynghanedd, recieves an award Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:15:16 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12051.html Poetry News: Poetry has always been the lyrical companion to prose's staid, straightforward style, the former pitching and rolling on staccato waves while the latter plows steadfastly ahead into uncharted text.Link! Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:17:56 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12052.html The best news about "Superior Donuts" is probably its unlikeness to any of Letts's previous plays. A writer who allows himself to be put in a box is a writer with a puny and predictable future. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:28:09 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12053.html ...Link! Last week, I was touched and surprised to see a poem by Kyle Potvin, a longtime friend of mine who learned she had breast cancer in 2006. On a business trip to Texas the following spring, she bought her sons terrariums to grow cactus plants, an activity that inspired her poem “The New Normal,” about her own experience with cancer. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:30:30 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12054.html Amidst the background of youthful flower children in search of personal identity, Chet Helms (along with Michael Bowen & Allen Cohen) would construct an event that would become musical folklore and now, forty years after that endeavor, the remnants of that event are on their way to metropolitan New Orleans to share the euphoria of the past as we gaze into the future. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:34:36 GMT http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/article/sid=12055.html ...Link! "Midleton was complaining about the negative effects of football, the physical injuries resulting from the sport". "Similar references appear in the works of Edmwnd Prys and Gruffydd Hiraethog from the same period. "There are surprisingly quite a few references to ball games in early Welsh poetry." Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:39:12 GMT